O.J. Simpson parole hearing set for July 20

Former NFL and college football star O.J. Simpson could be released from a Nevada prison, pending a parole hearing scheduled for July 20, an official from the Nevada State Board of Parole Commissioners said, via KTVN-TV.

The 70-year-old Simpson will appear by videoconference from Lovelock Correctional Center before a panel of four parole commissioners who could approve his release October 1.

Simpson, who has served nearly a decade of a 33-year sentence on burglary and kidnapping charges, was sentenced in a Nevada court in 2008, 13 years to the day after he was found not guilty of the murders in California of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Simpson was tried and convicted in Las Vegas after an incident in a hotel room involving two sports memorabilia dealers. Simpson was granted parole in 2013 on some of the charges in the case but was required to serve four more years of sentences he's serving at the same time.